Welcome captains!

This might be interesting with Gentoo. I know compilation with probably be slow. But you can highly customize it for RISC-V I think.

If it gets the wife approval you know you are on to something

You can choose a slower train for scale. Go for the stable release or even the enterprise release. Update once in a few months or so.

I went with Talos OS for my apps after the mess from IX-systems and for the most part it has been set and forget.